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Project

Life at the bottom. Living standardr and heights in Flanders, 1780 - 1900

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01D26713

Duration

01 October 2013 → 30 September 2018

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Isabelle Devos

Fellow

Ewout Depauw

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History
Social sciences
- Economic history

Keywords

anthropometry height Flanders living standards 18th Century 19th Century English Dutch Comparative Quantitative Belgium History

Project description

Average height is one of the best measures to study the social and economic conditions of a society and can be used to assess historical (in) equalities. We will examine the heights of prisoners during he last quarter of the 18th and the 19th century in Flanders.

English

Dutch

English

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